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We present a new mass estimate of a well-studied gravitational lensing cluster, Abell 1689, from deep Chandra observations with a total exposure of 200 ks. Within r=200 h-1 kpc, the X-ray mass estimate is systematically lower than that of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. -H. Peng , K. Andersson , M. W. Bautz , G. P. Garmire

We present a strong and weak lensing reconstruction of the massive cluster Abell 2744, the first cluster for which deep Hubble Frontier Field (HFF) images and spectroscopy from the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) are…

In this letter we present calibrated mass and light profiles of the rich cluster of galaxies Abell 1689 out to 1 $h^{-1}$ Mpc from the center. The high surface density of faint blue galaxies at high redshift, selected by their low surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. A. Tyson , P. Fischer

We present a new gravitational lens model of the Hubble Frontier Fields cluster Abell 370 ($z = 0.375$) using imaging and spectroscopy from Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based spectroscopy. We combine constraints from a catalog of 1344…

The Hubble Frontier Fields (HFF) program combines the capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) with the gravitational lensing of massive galaxy clusters to probe the distant Universe to an unprecedented depth. Here, we present the…

Gravitational lensing magnifies the luminosity of galaxies behind the lens. We use this effect to constrain the total mass in the cluster Abell 1689 by comparing the lensed luminosities of background galaxies with the luminosity function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Dye , A. N. Taylor , E. M. Thommes , K. Meisenheimer , C. Wolf , J. A. Peacock

Abell 2744, a massive Hubble Frontier Fields merging galaxy cluster with many multiple images in the core has been the subject of many lens inversions using different methods. While most existing studies compare various inversion methods,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Kevin Sebesta , Liliya L. R. Williams , Jori Liesenborgs , Elinor Medezinski , Nobuhiro Okabe

Current efforts in observational cosmology are focused on characterizing the mass-energy content of the Universe. We present results from a geometric test based on strong lensing in galaxy clusters. Based on Hubble Space Telescope images…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Eric Jullo , Priyamvada Natarajan , Jean-Paul Kneib , Anson d'Aloisio , Marceau Limousin , Johan Richard , Carlo Schimd

We present a first strong-lensing model for the galaxy cluster RM J121218.5+273255.1 ($z=0.35$; hereafter RMJ1212; also known as Abell 1489). This cluster is amongst the top 0.1\% richest clusters in the redMaPPer catalog; it is…

Abell 1689 is a galaxy cluster at $z=0.183$ where previous measurements of its mass using various techniques gave discrepant results. We present a new detailed measurement of the mass with the data based on X-ray observations with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. E. Andersson , G. M. Madejski

We present a new weak lensing analysis of the Hubble Frontier Fields galaxy cluster Abell 2744 ($z$ = 0.308) using new Magellan/MegaCam multi-band $gri$ imaging data. We carry out our study by applying brand-new PSF and shape measurement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Davide Abriola , Daniele Della Pergola , Marco Lombardi , Pietro Bergamini , Mario Nonino , Claudio Grillo , Piero Rosati

We present a photometric analysis of 65 galaxies in the rich cluster Abell 1689 at $z=0.183$, using the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys archive images in the rest-frame $V$-band. We perform two-dimensional multi-component…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Elena Dalla Bontà , R. L. Davies , R. C. W. Houghton , F. D'Eugenio , J. Méndez-Abreu

We present the first determination of the intrinsic triaxial shapes and tree-dimensional physical parameters of both dark matter (DM) and intra-cluster medium (ICM) for the galaxy cluster Abell 1689. We exploit the novel method we recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Andrea Morandi , Kristian Pedersen , Marceau Limousin

We present a new high precision parametric strong lensing total mass reconstruction of the Euclid Early Release Observations (ERO) galaxy cluster Abell 2390, at redshift z = 0.231. We include in this analysis 35 multiple images from 13…

Measuring the 3D distribution of mass on galaxy cluster scales is a crucial test of the LCDM model, providing constraints on the nature of dark matter. Recent work investigating mass distributions of individual galaxy clusters (e.g. Abell…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Virginia L. Corless , Lindsay J. King , Douglas Clowe

We conduct precise strong lensing mass modeling of four ${\it Hubble}$ Frontier Fields (HFF) clusters, Abell$~$2744, MACS$~$J0416.1$-$2403, MACS$~$J0717.5$+$3745, and MACS$~$J1149.6$+$2223, for which HFF imaging observations are completed.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Ryota Kawamata , Masamune Oguri , Masafumi Ishigaki , Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Masami Ouchi

We present a gravitational lensing study of the massive galaxy cluster A2219 (redshift 0.22). This investigation is based on multicolour images from U through H, which allows photometric redshifts to be estimated for the background sources.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bezecourt , H. Hoekstra , M. E. Gray , H. M. AbdelSalam , K. Kuijken , R. S. Ellis

We present strong-lensing models, as well as mass and magnification maps, for the cores of the six HST Frontier Fields galaxy clusters. Our parametric lens models are constrained by the locations and redshifts of multiple image systems of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Traci L. Johnson , Keren Sharon , Matthew B. Bayliss , Michael D. Gladders , Dan Coe , Harald Ebeling

We present a strong lensing analysis on the massive cluster Abell 370 (A370; z = 0.375), using a combination of deep multi-band Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging and Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) spectroscopy. From only two…

In this paper we probe five cosmological models for which the dark energy equation of state parameter, $w(z)$, is parameterized as a function of redshift using strong lensing data in the galaxy cluster Abell 1689. We constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Juan Magana , Ana Acebron , Veronica Motta , Tomas Verdugo , Eric Jullo , Marceau Limousin